[Lldb-commits] [PATCH] D50365: Add a new tool named "lldb-vscode" that implements the Visual Studio Code Debug Adaptor Protocol

[Zachary Turner via lldb-commits]

Ok sounds good then, mostly just wanted to make sure you weren't
re-inventing something that already existed :)  Do you plan to publish this
on the VSCode marketplace?

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:38 AM Greg Clayton <clayborg at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is a different protocol. The LLDB MI plugin didn't work very well as
> was quite flaky when I tested it a while back. Then I grabbed the CodeLLDB
> plugin by Vadim Chugunov and it worked very well. When I looked more
> closely at this plugin, it was using a javascript/typescript plug-in to
> launch a LLDB instance and then ran a python script that received all of
> the javascript packets from the javascript/typescript based plug-in and ran
> the debug session. It worked very well and was rock solid stable. So I then
> created this plug-in for Nuclide for use at Facebook as they switched all
> of the debugging plug-in over to use the VSCode debug adaptor protocols. It
> works event better than the CodeLLDB plugin with Visual Studio Code and it
> also doesn't stop you from using the python interpreter. The issue I had
> with the CodeLLDB is that is uses the python interpreter to run the debug
> session thus it isn't available to you as a LLDB user.
>
> So long story short: our IDE at Facebook uses the VSCode protocol, MI is
> clunky and doesn't work that well and was flaky, so this tool was created.
> This also provides a really nice way to do remote debugging where the
> lldb-vscode is run remotely on other systems. This removes the need for
> copying files from a remote host up onto the system that is doing the
> debugging.
>
> Greg
>
> On Aug 8, 2018, at 8:30 AM, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:
>
> How does this differ from VS Code's builtin LLDB MI support?
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 8:15 AM Pavel Labath via Phabricator <
> reviews at reviews.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> labath added a comment.
>>
>> To end things on a positive note: I think the test coverage is pretty
>> good (I'm sure somebody will suggest switching to lit), and I think a VS
>> code plugin would be a great addition to lldb.
>>
>>
>> https://reviews.llvm.org/D50365
>>
>>
>>
>>
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